"Name?" "Paul..."
"Is Paul a surname or a given name?" "Just Paul, it's both a given name and a surname."
"Race?" "Well, don't you humans always call us prawns?"
"Profession?" "Doing a small business, just making ends meet."
Slowly answering questions one after another like a barrage of questions from the humans in front of him, the only survivor among the five shrimp people gradually regained his consciousness under the bright light, and his logic and speaking speed in answering questions also improved. .
Such a change made the group negotiator who was asking the question nod, roughly confirming that the shrimp man who calls himself "Paul" is indeed different from most of his mentally retarded compatriots in District 9. It is very likely that he is the legendary one. A member of the shrimp leadership.
Throwing a few photos to Paul's hand, the interrogator pointed to the boxes of alien weapons and human munitions in the photos, and asked in a serious tone: "We found these contrabands in the secret room of your home. What do you think?" Is there any explanation for this?"
"These are all entrusted to me by your human gangs to smuggle. Maybe you think they are contraband, but to me, they are just a means to help me survive."
Although he wanted to stay calm, Paul began to panic in the face of the interrogator's stern questioning - the life span of shrimp people is not shorter than that of humans, even though he has also benefited a lot from the underground trade of alien weapons and is in his prime. He doesn't want to die here because of some arms that can be resold.
Poor Paul didn't realize who brought him here until now. He could only rely on past experience to guess that MNU was interested in his goods, so he sent people to arrest him overnight.
But the more certain he was that the other party was from MNU, the lower his hope for survival became. After all, he had never heard of any shrimp man taken away by MNU appearing in the restricted area again.
"You want to live, right?" The interrogator, who is good at understanding other people's psychology, smiled slightly and made an offer to the green-shelled shrimp man in front of him that was shaking like husk.
As long as all his accomplices are revealed, the generous humans will give him a second chance. The interrogator didn't care whether the other party had any accomplices, so he immediately gave Paul a subtle hint of his true intentions.
It doesn't matter if you don't have any accomplices to betray. Humans are very interested in so-called advanced shrimp people who are as smart as you. And I heard that there is a leader among the advanced shrimp people who likes to wear red children's clothing vests and often takes his son to dig through garbage dumps.
Recruit everything about this person as it is, and the key to freedom will be awarded to you as a prize.
Something unexpected happened to the interrogator. When the topic came up about the legendary leader of the shrimp people, Paul changed his previous greedy and fearful attitude. Instead, he shut his mouth tightly under his further inducement, regardless of whether he He didn't want to answer anything.
"Okay, go out and let me talk to him."
Just when the interrogator was secretly regretting that he had messed up the task assigned by his superiors, the robot who was present on behalf of Yang Tianyi opened the door of the interrogation room. The electronic male voice full of mechanical texture made Paul, who had his head lowered in the seat, curious about what he was thinking. He looked up.
After discovering that the visitor was actually a two-meter-tall robot wearing a suit, his confused eyes seemed to ask, when did human technology develop to this extent?
So before Yang Tianyi could pick up their unfinished topic, Paul, who noticed something was wrong, took the initiative to test: "You are not from MNU. They do not have such advanced technology. Who are you?"
Knowing that the other party would ask this question, Yang Tianyi controlled the robot and sat down on the folding chair in the interrogation room. The weight of hundreds of kilograms suddenly made the chair creak and groan in pain. Paul, who was waiting for an answer, had his brain jump and he realized what he was doing. His life was still in someone else's hands, and his straightforward tone just now clearly didn't give him enough respect.
"Bang! Bang!"
"You're right, we are not MNU."
Staring at the shrimp man's lowered head, the robot raised his palm and patted the metal table in front of him. After confirming that the other party's attention was attracted, Yang Tianyi said calmly: "But your current behavior is undoubtedly forcing us to The position is closer to MNU, and I can tell you that if we are not on the side of the shrimp people, then you will not be too far away from extinction."
"Extinction? Why, why do you say that?"
Seeing that Paul didn't believe his threat, Yang Tianyi sneered and projected the South African government's document on relocating the Shrimp Man to the Tenth Restricted Area - he believed that it would not be difficult to see MNU's true intentions with the wisdom of a high-level Shrimp Man, and even more What's more, Xingshu added fuel to the original plan.
"That's not what humans said when we first arrived on Earth twenty years ago." After briefly reading the document about the poor environment in Area 10, Paul growled with some indignation: "You once told us Promise to live a free and beautiful life!”
"Yes, but so what?" Yang Tianyi turned off the projection and his tone became colder.
"In order to get you off that dirty and shabby spaceship, humans have indeed promised a lot of unrealistic things. But I think you haven't figured it out yet. On Earth, we are the masters, and you shrimp people are just a bunch of Unwelcome guest."
"In five years, there have been four large-scale riots affecting tens of millions of people! Do you dare to say that the shrimp people have no responsibility? If it weren't for your greedy leaders to fan the flames behind the backs of your own people, they would have had a much better life than they do now. Life!"
"Everything the shrimp people have endured today is all your own fault. A group of scavengers that are not even considered higher beings are worthy of talking about freedom with me?"
Sensing that the tentacles on the opponent's head began to sway rapidly and erratically, Yang Tianyi knew that his provocation method was working, and the effect was not ordinary.
"District 10 is just a pretense to trick you into traveling in peace. Humanity has had enough of wiping your butts."
Without giving the other party any room to calm down and think, Yang Tian pretended to be pity and said: "MNU has recently developed a biological warfare agent targeting the genes of the shrimp people. When someone comes to inform you of the relocation, it is estimated that the shrimp people are not close to being exterminated. Far."
"Then why are you telling me this? It can't be that someone suddenly showed mercy and wanted to help us, right?"
Paul, whose emotions were completely controlled, was like a wild beast that had lost his mind. While breathing heavily, he also did not forget to mock a few human beings - anyway, it won't be long before all the more than one million shrimp people in the ninth penalty area will die. , he didn't care whether he was earlier or later.
Unexpectedly, Yang Tianyi nodded and said that the force he represented was a mortal enemy of MNU. As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is a friend. As long as Paul was willing to cooperate, he could save the shrimp people in District 9 and even help them return home. It's not impossible.
When the outcome of something is so bad that you can't think of a worse outcome than that, no matter whether it is humans or alien species like shrimp people, they will unconsciously begin to blindly believe in what others actively throw out. bona fide.
Just like a drowning man grabbing a floating straw on the water, Paul was in confusion at this time. He didn't know whether to believe Yang Tianyi's words or to die rather than betray his friends and leader.
The problem is, if the extermination plan of District 10 and MNU is true, then there is no betrayal. It is the best choice to confess everything you know as soon as possible. If you do not cooperate with the work of the robot, it will make the shrimp people miserable. The ending becomes even more tragic.
After thinking for a long time with extremely contradictory psychology, Paul decided to tell a story first, a story about him and all the shrimp people.
When the shrimp people were first born, there was no distinction between lower and higher classes. All shrimp people had normal intelligence and thinking abilities that were the same as humans. However, the reproduction ability of the original shrimp people was too weak. As for when they drove the spacecraft and began to bid farewell to their home star and explore the starry sky, the too sparse population could not support them in building a huge interstellar empire.
In order to obtain sufficient human resources, the smartest scientists among the shrimp people jointly developed an unprecedented biotechnology that allowed them to transform various creatures into the same species through genetic modification.
But soon the native shrimp people discovered that those of the same race obtained through transformation did not have the wisdom that normal people should have, and did not even have the ability to survive independently. Naturally, they could not be used to fill the manpower vacancies in the empire.
The reason for the low intelligence of the modified shrimp people is very realistic and cruel - because the genetic mutation process under external interference is much more violent than natural evolution, this causes the intelligence level of any creature after modification to be one level lower than the original one.
Those animals that have undergone transformation do not have normal intelligence, let alone after transformation?
So after a long search, the native shrimp people seized the home planets of some indigenous civilizations through force of conquest, and turned all the intelligent life on them that met the transformation standards into slaves who obeyed their orders.
After obtaining sufficient manpower, the Shrimp Man Empire built many large multi-functional dish-shaped motherships, and put the transformed slaves and native Shrimp Man in a certain proportion on the spacecraft to serve as crew members, allowing them to travel together in the vast sea of stars. Find resources that will make your empire more prosperous.
After finding a planet rich in minerals, the mothership is a mining spacecraft. After finding a livable planet with intelligent life that can be transformed, the mothership becomes the spy and vanguard of the expeditionary force.
Until one day, the mothership Paul was on suddenly lost contact with the home planet. Combined with the turbulent situation within the Shrimp Empire at that time, the dominant native shrimp class on the ship was in discussions with the leadership of the reformed shrimp people. Serious disagreements arose over the next steps.
Although the original shrimp people who took control of the ship claimed that the loss of contact with the home star was only temporary and that they should continue to explore the stars or return home, the rebels among the modified shrimp people who plotted for independence still released a secret inside the mothership that would cause all shrimp to A virus that greatly degrades the intelligence of humans, whether native or modified species.
The rebellion was very successful in the end. The virus turned all the opposing voices on the ship into meaningless babble. The rebels who had been injected with artificial antibodies in advance majestically took over the entire mothership and prepared to go to a relatively unknown place on the star map. A remote planetary system, establishing their own independent kingdom on the only habitable planet in the galaxy.
However, as time went by, the virus that had not completely disappeared from the spacecraft mutated into a brand new variety that even antibodies could not resist. While it killed all the native shrimp-people in the mothership, it somehow had no effect on transforming the shrimp-people.
At this time, there were still several months before the spacecraft arrived on Earth, and the millions of modified shrimp people carried by the mothership at the time of the expedition had already become primitive animals that had lost their minds. In addition to the automatic navigation of the entire spacecraft, which was still working normally, the rebels were unable to even open the supply warehouse on the spacecraft that required native shrimp-human genes, which directly led to the occurrence of famine.
When the spacecraft slowly hovered over Johannesburg according to the coordinates set by the automatic navigation, what happened next was everything known to mankind.
Seeing the remorse in Paul's eyes that didn't look like hypocrisy, Yang Tianyi, who understood the cause and effect, sighed lightly, feeling a little emotional in his heart.
The free-minded modified shrimp people chose to rebel in order to retaliate against the original shrimp people who turned them into this appearance, but they also paid an extremely heavy price in the process of usurping power. However, after going through all kinds of hardships, what the spacecraft arrived at was not the lush new home they imagined, but a planet with an owner belonging to humans.
If they had come thousands of years earlier, they might have really been able to rebuild civilization bit by bit through the equipment on the spacecraft, but unfortunately God is fair. While allowing the reformed shrimp people to enjoy their grudges, it also closed their door to the future.
"How many people who participated in the rebellion are left now?"
After hearing the question, Paul thought for a while and replied with a disappointed expression: "When I first arrived on Earth, there were probably hundreds of people, and most of them died inciting riots. Except for a few friends, I don't have any more." The information can be provided to you."
"Don't you want to see our leader? Promise me that the same tragedy will not happen again, and I will take you to see him."
After clapping his hands to applaud the heroic spirit of resistance of the rebels in the story, Yang Tianyi controlled the robot and nodded slowly, agreeing to his request - considering that several of Paul's friends may have died in the conflict between the group and Arasaka Company last night. In the middle of a battle, the opponent still has to satisfy this small request.
But as he once said to Edward, "The contract was destined to be broken from the moment it was signed."
If Paul and his friends dare to play tricks under the nose of the group, then Yang Tianyi can only regretfully say that the biological warfare agent in the ultra-low temperature container is not a decoration. By then, the modified shrimp people in District 9 will not only receive no help from the group, but they will also have to watch the large-scale plague twenty years ago happen again around them.
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